The last time Megan Cammillieri saw her daughter Jasmine, two, alive, she was happily watching her favourite cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants in the living room of their Perth home.
Megan left the room for five to 10 minutes, as she often did, but when she returned, Jasmine was dead, killed when the family’s flat-screen television fell and crushed her chest.
Jasmine had recently developed a habit of climbing onto the TV cabinet, and the TV had been pushed right up against the wall to keep it out of her way, Megan told an inquest into Jasmine’s death yesterday.
The TV’s manual recommended the device be secured to the wall, but neither she nor her husband had read it.
“I just think that maybe people selling televisions could make a bit more effort to say that straps and putting it on the wall are not just an aesthetics concern but for safety,” Megan said.
